Mobile applications (“apps”) are increasingly used in medical education and practice.
However, many medical apps are of variable quality, lack supporting evidence
and fall outside the remit of regulators. In this thesis, ...

For over one hundred years the drum kit has been a driving force in shaping popular
music, yet in popular culture the kit is not taken as seriously as other instruments,
with drummer jokes abound. This hierarchy is ...

The focus of this thesis is Cumbernauld New Town, designated in 1955, and widely considered revolutionary in concept and built form, both by many contemporary architectural/planning commentators and by subsequent historians. ...

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In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, many of the British
government’s attempts to rebuild the social order and improve standards were
experienced through design. This was true not only in the home and in ...

At the eastern end of the Edinburgh World Heritage Site, a protrusion of volcanic rock known as Calton Hill is situated on the northern side of the Waverley Valley. This area sits approximately 100m above sea level at its ...

This thesis offers a periodization of the present according to which contemporary art
and visual culture are understood to be symptomatic of an increasingly pervasive
pessimistic social, political and ecological outlook. ...

This study provides the first comprehensive account of the institutional history of
the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (SNGMA) from the earliest calls for its
foundation at the start of the twentieth century to ...

This dissertation investigates the introduction and development of a musical instrument,
the viola da gamba (viol), in sixteenth-century France by articulating the wider cultural
consequences of introducing new musical ...

This thesis focuses on explaining why group encounters with rural landscapes in Scotland are deemed
to be positive for mental wellbeing. The relationship between greenspace and human wellbeing is a
phenomenon that ...

The eleven illuminated missals at the core of this thesis share a distinctive scale that sets
them apart from the majority of other decorated missals. Their scale was a key factor in
the visual and ritual experiences ...

The present thesis is a critical introduction to a body of writings on heritage conservation by the Czech-born art historian Max Dvořák (1874–1921). From 1905 onwards, Dvořák was both professor of art history at the ...

This thesis considers the musical response of the American composer,
Miriam Gideon to political events during the McCarthy era. It examines the
interrelationships between politics, society and culture and considers how ...

This thesis concerns a shift in the historiography of the Venetian painter Giorgione (c1477-
1510). In important ways, this change was caused by Joseph Archer Crowe (1825-1896) and
Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle (1819-1897) ...

The architectural theorist and practitioner Bernard Tschumi asserts that enquiring and
working at the limits of a discipline expands our knowledge and experience. Within this
thesis I examine the limits of architecture ...

This thesis offers a reassessment of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s painting Children’s Games (1560, Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna). Addressing the lack of historically accurate interpretations of Bruegel’s panel, I use a ...

This practice-based research articulates a performer’s perspective from within the
rapidly expanding field of mixed music, wherein traditional acoustic instruments are
augmented by means of live electronics. Contemporary ...